Github user HeartSaVioR commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/519#issuecomment-92337108
Please think again that Storm is already widely used system, which means
that Storm should support lower version of JDK as possible to widen coverage of
usages.
It's why many OSPs couldn't update their codebase to JDK 1.8 though JDK 1.8
has released for a while.
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